You won't be disappointed!

Great Film overall

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Objectively, there's nothing really WRONG with this film. It sets out to do something extremely simple, and it achieves that goal flawlessly, but that goal isn't really compelling unless one accounts for the film's age. It is said that this isn't only one of the first films ever made, but also one of the earliest films to feature a female "star" I suppose. I'm not sure how true this claim is, but it's not very hard for me to believe. The actress featured in this film is rather charming and dances in a vivid and exuberant manner, making this film be one of slight excitement thanks to the wild, cheerful movements made. It'definitely be really boring if it were an hour, but films of such a length were unheard of back in this day, so dwelling on such hypothetical situations is quite pointless. All in all, this is a pretty enjoyable way to spend less than a minute of your time and is recommended for fans of film in general as it is short and enjoyable enough to intrigue almost anyone.

"Carmencita" is a short video of a woman dancing. She is obviously a veteran performer, probably from Broadway. She does some pretty nice moves, especially from 1894, where simple spinning was enough to entertain the masses. When compared to scenes such as the "Imperial Japanese Dance" or the "Sioux Ghost Dance", Carmencita shows a little bit of flash.This was another collaboration between W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise. They recorded this short film for Edison Laboratories. They were constantly looking for subjects to shoot. They shot many different acts from the vaudeville scene, from dancers to gymnasts.

. . . would not earn too many quarters (inflation has quintupled nickelodeon prices since Light Bulb Man's day) wearing her inverted-tea cup dress throughout this 26.06-second performance. But it's the thought that counts, and, as multiple researchers make clear, Edison and his crew viewed their invention of movies from the start exclusively as a vehicle to better satiate the male human being's lust for sex and violence in a private or semi-private setting. When you look at the early "kinetograph" parlors, the workers and clientele are solely of the male sex. While Edison was somewhat proud of the technical aspects of his moving pictures (enough so that he filmed brief snippets of men waving hats or sneezing for his wife to show to her women's clubs meetings), ALL of old Tom's money shots were of violence (boxing--then illegal in America--as well as cock fights, bear baiting, rat-on-rat action, and feline torture) and sex (filmming the women dancers of his day between their jail stints, or previously unknown strippers). If pervert Con Ed had had his way, movies would have remained a solo pursuit between a man, his peep box, and his do-hickey.

This short film was included several years ago in a documentary about Thomas Edison and his early movie-making experiments. It's timeless - an absolute classic!The video itself is jumpy and splotchy, and primitive by even the earliest silent film standards. But by anyone's measure, the dancer is amazingly good, and this peek into the distant past is well worth watching, if the opportunity arises.It would be nice if someone put together for commercial sale a collection of very early experimental film projects like this one. Few are likely to be as fascinating as this, but it's amazing to see how dramatically video technology has changed - and how relatively little change there has been in our entertainment preferences.